Jaime Ramirez Gomez

Jaime Ramirez Gomez (6 March 1939-17 November 1986) was a Brigadier-General of the Colombian National Police during the Colombian conflict. Ramirez played an active role in fighting against Colombia's powerful drug cartels, and he was murdered by the Medellin Cartel in 1986.

Biography
Jaime Ramirez Gomez was born on 6 March 1939, and he became an officer in the Colombian National Police. Starting in the early 1970s, Ramirez played a role in fighting against drug trafficking in the area around Medellin, and Ramirez was repeatedly promoted due to his successes. In the early 1980s, he succeeded in preventing a Medellin Cartel assassination attempt against Minister of Justice Rodrigo Lara, and he was placed in charge of the highly successful Tranquilandia raid in 1984. The raid led to the Medellin Cartel putting both Lara and Ramirez on their hit list; Lara was the first to be assassinated. On 17 November 1986, as he drove into Bogota with his family, his car was ambushed by a car of Medellin assassins. His car crashed into a rock near a police station, and the assassins proceeded to aprpoach his car and shoot him in front of his wife and his sons.